I would rape accuser, says Tyson

I would rape accuser, says Tyson

Thursday 29 May 2003 21.26 EDT
First published on Thursday 29 May 2003 21.26 EDT

Despite insisting that he did not sexually assault the woman he was jailed for raping in 1991, the former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has said talking about her makes him so angry that he wants to rape her now.

In a Fox News interview, Tyson, 36, calls the former beauty queen Desiree Washington "a lying, monstrous young lady", and says: "I just hate her guts."

"She put me in that state where now I really do want to rape her," Tyson said, according to excerpts provided by Fox News.

Ms Washington turned down requests to be interviewed and declined to respond to Tyson's comments, Fox News said.

Tyson was convicted of raping Ms Washington in 1992 and sentenced to six years in prison. He served three years before his release on parole, which he completed in June 1999.